If you move into my life and take over my soul

Charm all my friends and play the rescuer role

Let me quit my job to go on your dole

And make your approval my ultimate goal,

I will begin to shrink back into the corner of my own skin

Until I'm so small and pink that no one would see me

even if they got in -



Your enormous index finger would be probing to find me

As I darted between the walls of my own personality

Which would be changing as I left most of it behind me

Disappearing into a new reality...



And when you tried to trot me out to show me to your friends

They'd say